03-11-2021, 05:32 AM
It seems to me that there are no traditional games of elimination that are guaranteed to end with only pieces of one player on the board. That is, there is no finite and drawless traditional game in which the only way to win is to end up as the only player with pieces on the board. Can this really be the case? I think there were no such game before Mark Steere made Tanbo, and he has made many since (Oust and Zola are two excellent examples in the Ludii repository).
I'd love to hear if I'm wrong about this. I'm also interested in edge cases. If there, for example, is a mancala game that is guaranteed to end with the winner having all seeds in their houses, or a card game that must end with one player having all the cards, that would also be interesting to hear about.
I'd love to hear if I'm wrong about this. I'm also interested in edge cases. If there, for example, is a mancala game that is guaranteed to end with the winner having all seeds in their houses, or a card game that must end with one player having all the cards, that would also be interesting to hear about.